PERJURY.
No. 21 of 1922.
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(2) Every person who incites or attempts to procure or suborn another person to commit an offence against this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
oath.
10. Where two or more contradictory statements of fact or alleged fact, material to the issue or matter in question, have been wilfully made on oath by one and the same witness in any judicial proceeding or proceedings, whether before the same court or tribunal or person or not, and whether the respective truth or falsehood of the said statements can be ascertained or not, an indictment may be preferred against him, charging him with having wilfully made the said contradictory statements, and, on conviction thereof, either in whole or in part, such witness shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years and to a fine.
affidavits.
11. Every person who wilfully uses for any purpose any affidavit which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, wherever such affidavit may have been sworn, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof on indictment, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years and to a fine.
prosecution
1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 6, s. 9.
12. (1) Where any judge or magistrate is of opinion that any person has, in the course of a proceeding before him, been guilty of perjury, he may order the prosecution for perjury of that person for such perjury, in case there shall appear to be reasonable cause for such prosecution, and may commit him, or admit him to bail, to take his trial at the proper court, and may require any person to enter into a recognizance to prosecute or give evidence against the person whose prosecution is so ordered, and may give the person so bound to prosecute a certificate of the making of the order for the prosecution, for which certificate no charge shall be made.
(2) An order made or a certificate given under this section shall not be given in evidence for the purpose or in the course of any trial of a prosecution resulting therefrom.
13.--(1) In an indictment-
(a) for making any false statement or false representation punishable under this Ordinance; or
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
c. 6, s. 12.
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